Stream TV Tuner Hardware Encoding

[ccb056]

I'm trying to find software which will allow me to use the chip on my TV Tuner (not my cpu) to encode TV and then stream it across my network.

All the software I've seen, downloaded, installed uses the CPU to encode the video; I don't want that.

Any advice?

[Mpegger]

If your TV tuner card is hardware based, then the software PVR sould be using the hardware to record. Most hardware based cards wont even allow recording in software mode.

As far as streaming video, you can simply setup the folder your recording the video to as a shared folder in your network. All the viewing computer would need is sofware to play the MPEG1 or 2 video (if your hardware based card is a MPEG based capture device).

If your talking about streaming across the internet, then you would need to re-encode the video on the fly to a low bitrate format that will stream smoothly over your connection between the two pc. This usually means either WMV or Xvid/Divx formats. I believe there is one or two hardware capture cards which can also encode in hardware to Divx, but unless there is a specific software that can stream the encoded video instead of save it to harddrive in Divx format, you only other recourse is software encoding/streaming.

[ccb056]

Why can't you stream hardware encoded MPEG 2?

[LandShark]

BeyondTV and it's TV client BeyondTV Link does exactly that!

I can watch live tv (both HD & SD) which is capturing from my living room htpc (hardware encoded tuner card) on my laptop (can't stream HD via wireless tho!). and I'm building a bedroom client too.

[Mpegger]

You dont need to "stream" MPEG1/2 files. Because of the way the MPEG format works, you can actually play a mpeg file while its being recorded, hence a simple folder share on your home network is all you need.

I have BeyondTV too, and yes, it can stream the file not only in the original format, but also encode on the fly (software) and stream in other formats. But it cant reencode with a hardware device to stream it across your network, which was what your original post asked.